The Sun Never Sets

Better known for works of reportage that border on the controversial—like White Cat Black Cat—An Insight into the State of the Reforms, ¹ Su Ya and Jia Lusheng authored one of the most sycophantic contributions to the MaoCraze. The Sun Never Sets is a volume of reportage devoted to Mao published in early 1992. In it the writers plumb depths of tastelessness rarely fathomed even by official propagandists. While less hysterical than Cultural Revolution paeans to Mao, the authors' adulation for the Leader would be familiar to the formulators of the Führerprinzip in Nazi Germany or the Kim Il-song/Kim Jong-il cults in North Korea.